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Full text of Obama speech
Samson Dada’s blog and exclusive anthology of: Fictional a… | 4 hours ago
“To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation; “With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. “Let me express my read more
Obama makes history
Samson Dada’s blog and exclusive anthology of: Fictional a… | 5 hours ago
On the day that Martin Luther King made his memorable “I have a dream” speech in his historic march on Washington, Barack Obama formally accepted the nomination for the President of the United States of America. At a packed Denver’s read more
In the Gardens.
Berlin's Whimsy | 12 hours ago by Berlin Smith
What is the proverb, "...Life began in a Garden...?" Perhaps. I'm not a wonderful gardener but I have aspirations. These photos are not from my own yard but I do have a quite pleasurable little space to call my own.... read more
A Great Web Resource for Writers and Editors
Dan Curtis - Professional Personal Historian | 13 hours ago by Dan Curtis
Pat McNees, a colleague of mine in the Association of Personal Historians has put together a fantastic website that is of value to both the novice and experienced writer-editor. Check it out. This what she has to say: As a writer-editor I am often as read more
Cherry Mirroir Cake
"Sleeping Kitten - Dancing Dog!" | 14 hours ago by Theresa Hall
Resembles The Pentagon and has a shiny glazed topping. A jaconde layered with raspberry jam. The jaconde cake was soaked with dark rum syrup, prior to the jam and the assembly. Assembly consists of cutting cake into four sections, (leaving one read more
Writing life stuff
Communati.com - Learn to Write & Blog | 15 hours ago by Mark Whitbeck
Have you ever wanted to write your life story? Ever wondered how to do this feat and have some success at getting it published? The first thing I always ask is, who wants to read about me? What is there about my life story that is special? read read more
My African Travels Part One: Mistakes Were Made
Friesen Point | 15 hours ago by Dan
Not writing for the Maneater has made me feel rather weird so far this semester. I feel sort of lost, and fairly sentimental for the good times I had dicking around in print. These feelings have turned into a bizarrely sentimental funk that has i read more
Links: 2008-08-29
meryl's notes | 16 hours ago
100 Most Common English Words: How many can you get in five minutes? I only got 55. Pooh. [Link: Dawn] How to Feed the Innovation Pipeline. Digital Image Resources on the Deep Web: Hard to find digital images… The Secrets of Storyte read more
What is Love?
Robert Walker Online | 18 hours ago by Robert Walker
Yesterday, I left a comment on Tom Stine’s blog post titled “Separateness to Oneness,” mostly in response to a few questions from another commenter. My comment almost ended up being a post in its own right, so I thought I’d read more
Summer Ends/ Ruminations Commence
Virginia Breeze | 18 hours ago by David
Labor Day is just around the corner and summer is coming to an end. I realize that some of us will still go to the beach in September and maybe even put our toes in the water. But for reasons having to do with official policy summer is over. read more
The Fembassy
A Book Without A Cover | 19 hours ago by A Book Without A Cover
Fembassy is looking for writers to contribute to their blog. Fembassy is dedicated to Female Rappers. In order to qualify you must: 1. Love Hip Hop 2. Have a passion for seeing females succeed 3. Believe in Equality If interested email: TheFembas read more
The Public Has Spoken! And the Winner Is…
For a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic | 19 hours ago
The Marlon Brando of CatsI’ve never been too much of a Marlon Brando fan, but that was because I associated him only with “A Streetcar Named Desire.” I hated the story, hated the character’s, and wanted nothing more than to find Stanley Kowal read more
Day 3: 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver
Samson Dada’s blog and exclusive anthology of: Fictional a… | 20 hours ago
Today’s theme was “Securing America’s Future.” Hillary Clinton officially handed over her delegates and nominated Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee, Obama even dropped in to say Hi, but it was her husband Bill who stole t read more
Changing History: Rearranging Chapters in Your Fantasy Novel
Aliens and Elves | 20 hours ago by Randy Stott
I’m still in the revising, rewriting and editing stage, but I’m close to moving on to the next scene. I’ve spent the last few nights revisiting old chapters and old scenes and my notes and chronology of events. In the first version read more
Lachrimae antiquae novae
Notes From A Rooom | 22 hours ago by Peter
Crucified Lord, so naked to the world, you live unseen within that nakedness, consigned by proxy to the judas-kiss of our devotion, bowed beneath the gold, with re-enactments, penances foretold: scentings of love across a wilderness of retrospection, read more
The silence
Notes From A Rooom | 22 hours ago by Peter
When we first moved there, she loved it. The silence, the solitude. She liked it when I didn’t speak much, so I spoke less and less. I felt marvellous in that peacefulness, though I missed my family sometimes. She did her work and sold some read more
Pre-Holiday-Post
Momma Mia Mea Culpa | 23 hours ago by Meleah Rebeccah
My holiday weekend will kick off, just as soon as I get out of this office precisely @ 3pm. 3pm never seemed so far away. Until now! I currently feel much like a school kid in the classroom waiting for the glorious sound of the release bell to ring read more
Intros: hooking your reader
The Crafty Writer | August 29th 2008
Most writers, including myself, tend to write their way into an article or story. We only ‘warm up’ by about the second or third paragraphs. On editing, you will hopefully see that your first paragraph can usually be scrapped, or incorpor read more
The Beginning of Human Circuitry
Open Source Blogging | August 29th 2008 by Steve Rhode
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Gnomedex 8.0 wrapped up last Saturday. The feedback we have seen thus far has been amazingly positive. The general consensus seems to be that people came away energized, impass read more
ShapeWriter’s WritingPad for Android
L . i . n . k . e . r | August 29th 2008 by Premnath Sah
Google’s Android Challenge has brought in lot of new type of application to android. Check this new innovative way of typing into mobile phone with touch screens Similar Posts:Google Issues Long-awaited Android SDK Update iSwish brings iPhone read more
Author Spotlight: Tony DiTerlizzi
Bugs and Bunnies: Stories, thoughts and musings... | August 29th 2008 by Kim Wheedleton
Tony DiTerlizzi was born September 6, 1969 in south Florida, into an artistic household. He started drawing at a very early age, "including a crayon mural of Winnie-the-Pooh on his freshly painted bedroom walls." At the age of 12, inspired by Jim Hen read more
This poem is made of win.
MissMeliss: Escribition | August 28th 2008 by Melissa Bartell
My friend Jeremy posted this in his LiveJournal earlier this evening. I loved the poem so much, I had to post it here in my own blog, as well: Pronunciation Poem I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble, b read more
The Creative Call
Writely Applied | August 28th 2008 by Violette DeSantis
“I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.” Peter Nivio Zarlenga American Businessman, Founder of Blockbuster Videos Do you think we can claim that? Can we b read more
Pomp in Circumstance
The Jose Vilson | August 28th 2008 by Jose
A few notes: - A few days ago, I mentioned how one of my favorite teachers / mentors / friends left my present school of employ. Today, I found out that another teacher, who was an icon in the building, passed away. It hurt my soul to see him go, bec read more
POV: First vs Third
JenWriter | August 28th 2008 by JenWriter
So, in my last post, I listed my novels so far. All of them, except for Teen Ghost, have been written in first person. With that one, I went with third. This was done for structural reasons as well as an exercise. I wasn’t sure if I could write read more
Karma
What A Tragic Comedy | August 28th 2008 by Juliet
Art of the Day: Asian Hydrangea Bloom by Edo Painters I don’t typically enjoy Asian art. That’s not completely true. Obviously by my posting this picture. But my mother loves it. I think her house would be a perfect replica of a tradition read more
Hurricane Again
Life or something like it... | August 28th 2008 by Edele
Well, we have our first hurricane on it’s way for this year in the next 2 or 3 days. It is named Gustav. Our state had declared state of emergency and are evacuating a bunch of people already from New Orleans. Just pray for us guys that it won& read more
Is Ojrak Mature?
`Ojrak!' | August 28th 2008 by Yella Ojrak
Heck. Somebody just reported this blog as mature. I lost my username’s clickability for a while. Now it’s clickable again. Well, this blog is certainly not for kids, nor hypersensitive adult morons, but it’s not mature. Several post read more
No Title
Blurb from the Burbs | August 28th 2008
Day Twenty Nine - Appreciative AugustMagazinesEver since I clapped eyes on my mother's 'Australian Women's Weekly' when it was still a weekly and not a monthly and the exploits of Delvene Delaney, Belinda Green and Ita 'At My Deskth' Buttrose ruled t read more
Writing about writing rather than, you know, writing
Available Light | August 28th 2008 by kathy
I picked up a book a few days ago: Alan Zielgler's The Writing Workshop Notebook. It wasn't until I halfway through it that I though, "Hey, I've read this before, like just earlier this year." ('Cause I'm special like that.)Now I know what you're thi read more
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